Please find attached some useful information regarding mental health and disability within the workplace. There is also an extremely useful 'Passport for Re-Adjustments,' and guidance of how this can be used.

The RMT have announced a 48 hour tube strike next week in the fight over job cuts and ticket office closures. The latest action has been widely reported in the press as RMT members prepare for action to defend jobs and a decent tube service:

Transport For All; the charity campaigning for a fully accessible, reliable and affordable transport network for disabled and older Londoners has written to the Evening Standard describing the horror that disabled and older passengers will feel over tube bosses plans to cut staff.

Transport For All describe it as living in la-la-land to think cctv and ticket machines is a suitable alternative to station staff for the 43% of wheelchair users who have suffered hate crime on the tube, or the 29% of disabled people who feel unsafe using the underground.

Action For Rail have produced this short animation to highlight the impact of rail privatisation. Profits are going straight into the pockets of shareholders whilst cuts are made to staffing, maintenance and infrastructure. Meanwhile fares are rising three times faster than wages -